Linda Bloemhard (NL)

Discussion group on the future of music education on Friday 15/09, at 15:00

My musical career as a Pop musician started in the early 80-ties when I was seventeen. Since then, my career in music and music education has been an ongoing journey where I have had many great opportunities to perform with wonderful musicians and bands.

After my professional career in pop music, I was accepted at the Rotterdam Conservatory to study Pop & Jazz. In 2000 I was asked to become a teacher at the Pop department and from then on developed myself as an educator, curriculum developer and head of departments Jazz, Pop in Higher Music Education at Codarts, University of the Arts Rotterdam.

My goal as a head of department and educator has always been to design pathways of learning and teaching that are relevant for the musicians and educators of tomorrow. The eld of higher music education is always evolving and as educators we cannot stop evolving with it, we owe it to the next generation to keep making space for music and the arts in society. ‘Earth without Art is E..h...’.